3 Events on Saturday the 18th of October, 2008

If Opera singers are always talking about themselves, the same might be said of the works they perform: Tutti in maschera is an opera…..about opera!

• Carlo Pedrotti

• IN JOKES AND OUT-TAKES

• (Sung in Italian with English Surtitles)

In this updated telling of Pedrotti’s masterpiece, the action is set in Italy in the aftermath of the Second World War It’s a time when lots of theatrical artists are touring around the devastated countryside of Italy looking for work, hungry for glory and fame—or just plain hungry!—but things are looking up for one particular group of singers: a wealthy foreigner has come to Venice to recruit his own opera company. His criteria for casting the main female roles, however, comes under suspicion, and there’s another problem too: when the entire impoverished company is invited by the unscrupulous impresario to a masked ball at La Fenice (Venice’s famous opera house), how will they come up with the necessary sumptuous costumes?

The first volume of Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies was published 200 years ago this year. In order to celebrate this key repertoire and its author – who is really nothing less than the bard of the island of Ireland (and whose mother was from Wexford)

This concert features many of the prize winners from the “Celtic Harp” singing competition held in the National Concert Hall in January. They will be performing a selection of Moore’s songs to piano accompaniment

And to heighten this celebration, an exhibition which boasts a series of interesting panels, along with audio and visual material, will be on display at Wexford Town Library from October 8th – October 29th. For full details please contact Wexford Town Library.

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